January 26, 2009: Mohsen Shuman (Zaqaziq University, Egypt): “Daily Life in
Ottoman Cairo: What Court Records Teach about Labour, Neighbourhood and
Family Relations”

February 9, 2009: Johann Büssow (Research Centre 586 “Difference and
Integration, “Universities of Leipzig and Halle-Wittenberg): “Street Politics in
Damascus: Popular Unrest during the Period of Egyptian Rule, 1831-1840”

February 16, 2009: Donald Quataert (State University of New-York at Binghamton):
“An Ottoman Rashemon and the Telling of History: the Coalfi eld Town of Eregli as
seen through a Corruption Court Case”

April 20, 2009: Johann Strauss (Marc Bloch University, Strasbourg): “Linguistic
Diversity and Everyday Life in Ottoman Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean and the
Balkans”

May 4, 2009: Selçuk Dursun (Istanbul, Fellow of Europe in the Middle East – The
Middle East in Europe 2008/09): “Wood for Living and Timber for Fraud: Everyday
Politics of Corruption in Trabzon in the late 19th Century”

May 18, 2009: Ismael Montana (Northern Illinois University, Fellow of Europe in
the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe 2008/09): “Ethno-Religious Contours
of West African Households in the Ottoman Regency of Tunis, 1738-1860s ca.”

Mar. 10: Prof. Dr. Astrid Debold-Kritter (TU Berlin): Istanbul/Constantinople. Multi-ethnic life in the Capital of the Ottoman Empire in the time of Selim III., as seen through Antoine Ignace Melling's illustrated documentation on Constantinople and the Bosphorus, Paris 1819

Feb. 25: Dr. Gergana Georgieva (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,
Fellow EUME 2007-2008): Cosmopolitanism and the Urban Governance
of a Balkan Town –
Sofia in the Late 18th - Early 19th Centuries